Inertia-induced nucleation-like motility-induced phase separation

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is of great importance and has been extensively researched in overdamped systems, nevertheless, what impacts inertia will bring on kinetics of MIPS is lack of investigation. Here, we find a nucleation-like MIPS instead of spinodal decomposition in the overdam...

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Veröffentlicht in:New journal of physics 2021-01, Vol.23 (1), p.13005
Hauptverfasser: Su, Jie, Jiang, Huijun, Hou, Zhonghuai
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Zusammenfassung:Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is of great importance and has been extensively researched in overdamped systems, nevertheless, what impacts inertia will bring on kinetics of MIPS is lack of investigation. Here, we find a nucleation-like MIPS instead of spinodal decomposition in the overdamped case, i.e. not only the phase transition changes from continuous to discontinuous, but also the formation of clusters does not exhibit any coarsening regime. This remarkable kinetics of MIPS stems from a competition between activity-induced accumulation of particles and inertia-induced suppression of clustering process. More interestingly, the discontinuity of MIPS still exists even when the ratio of particle mass to the friction coefficient reduces to be very small such as 10−4. Our findings emphasize the importance of inertia induced kinetics of MIPS, and may open a new perspective on understanding the nature of MIPS in active systems.
ISSN:1367-2630
1367-2630
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/abd80a